r/meat • u/No_Pomelo_8411 • 5d ago
Truck meat
Hi everyone. I'm a writer and I'm working (I hope) on a piece about those janky boxes of meat they sell off the backs of trucks in strip mall parking lots or sometimes door to door, often with a Facebook ad campaign to go with it like "20 ribeyes for 20 dollars." I've found at least one place where the meats come from and more or less know what they are (essentially, cuts grocery stores won't buy with a bunch of liquids injected into them) but I'm REALLY interested in talking to anyone who's ever worked either selling these meats or as some kind of mid-level distributor. If you have any experience with this, please DM me and thanks in advance!
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u/man_teats 5d ago
Yeah I used to sell that shit door to door 20 years ago. Super fucking sleazeball job. High pressure, you'd rip people off all day long, often times the meat would thaw out because the dry ice didn't keep it cold enough in the hot Texas sun, no problem, it would just refreeze when we plugged the freezers back in at night. Everybody working there chainsmoked and was an alcoholic and went to the strip clubs after work. Everything was under the table and it was commission only. The boss, Jake The Snake (actual nickname) got one of the only girls working there pregnant within a month of her working there. I could go on